Media influences the development of every individual's identity, weather they are privileged or a minority. Privileged people are shown more often in media, and minorities are the opposite. Minorities are greatly affected by this, because if they only see themselves once or twice or even never in media, they're going to feel like they're different from everyone else. If other people don't see the minorities in media, they don't see the minorities as equals. Which makes it easier to justify violence. It's simple now to see why underrepresention is so terrible. It's smart to pay attention and notice when only privileged people are shown in media, because change starts with awareness. The next few paragraphs will consist of the underrepresention
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This is why they tend to only use people of the majority in casting, but there is also discrimination in play as well, an excellent example being women, whom are seen as a minority even though there are an equal number of women and men. If one were to write out all of the most popular television shows and list them as diverse and not diverse, they would find about an even number of both. Diverse television shows such as Orange Is The New Black, modern family, The 100, Empire and Grey's Anatomy, have characters that are people of color, queer people, disabled people and an equal number of women as men. This is a great step towards achieving equality. There are still a couple troubling issues though, and one is the lack of double minorities. Double minorities are people who are minorities in two different respects, such as being a person of color and disabled, or a woman and queer. There is one gleaming exception to this, and that is Orange Is The New Black, Orange Is The New Black has multiple queer women of color, even a transgender woman of color. Another problem regarding the underrepresention of minorities in television shows, are minorities inside of minorities, meaning there may be people of color, but there are no asian or aboriginal people, only black people. There are gay and lesbian characters, but no bisexual, pansexual, asexual or transgender people.
This is why they tend to only use people of the majority in casting, but there is also discrimination in play as well, an excellent example being women, whom are seen as a minority even though there are an equal number of women and men. If one were to write out all of the most popular television shows and list them as diverse and not diverse, they would find about an even number of both. Diverse television shows such as Orange Is The New Black, modern family, The 100, Empire and Grey's Anatomy, have characters that are people of color, queer people, disabled people and an equal number of women as men. This is a great step towards achieving equality. There are still a couple troubling issues though, and one is the lack of double minorities. Double minorities are people who are minorities in two different respects, such as being a person of color and disabled, or a woman and queer. There is one gleaming exception to this, and that is Orange Is The New Black, Orange Is The New Black has multiple queer women of color, even a transgender woman of color. Another problem regarding the underrepresention of minorities in television shows, are minorities inside of minorities, meaning there may be people of color, but there are no asian or aboriginal people, only black people. There are gay and lesbian characters, but no bisexual, pansexual, asexual or transgender people.